Taco Bell

The people who work here are always so nice and courteous. Love the food. Just wish this one would please have Mexican Pizzas. My only complaint. :)

Taco Bell is Taco Bell is Taco Bell… but THIS Taco Bell has great people working there. Cashiers are very friendly (some of the only cashiers in the fast-​food industry that smile constantly!), and the cooks make your order when you order it (not ahead of time!) which means the food it HOT! I have never had a bad experience at this Taco Bell in particular and I love having a simple, fast, cheap, and delicious meal in Kings Beach. Thanks guys! Long live Kings Beach Taco Bell!

Yeah yeah yeah it was Taco Bell quality food. Normal fast food. The biggest issue was the filth and dirtiness of the sitting area, soda station, and condiments.

No restroom and when I inquired they told me to go to chevron. I didn’t eat lunch at chevron you losers.

If we are rating this particular Taco Bell in comparison to all other Taco Bells and not against other legitimate Mexican restaurants (which, you fools, Taco Bell is clearly NOT) this location is on the top of my scale when compared to the countless other fine T-​Bell establishments I’ve honored with my patronage. Since it’s an express, you see the food prep area, which is a rarity in the fast food world. If you watch closely, you will observe that each and every item is made TO ORDER! No premade tacos waiting for their new owners for 45 minutes. Plus service is on point. These ladies are cheerful as fuck. And this is just… highly unusual in that line of work. I speak from experience. Obviously.

This is a Taco Bell express located right off the beach. Hence the menu is going to be a bit limited. The interior is rather small.
Service was a bit slow but otherwise fine.

Great for your wallet and boy are these girls quick !

People need to remember this is a Taco Bell Express, they don’t have everything. But when it’s late at night and you need a quick dinner its a great place. The food is always fresh, order is always right, they make it right in front of you and everyone is always nice. For a quick cheap meal it’s the place to go. There isn’t any other fast food around but this also does it :)

Our (guilty) pleasure is Taco Bell.
On the way back from snowboarding, we stopped here for some much needed sustenance.
This Taco Bell is right on the lake, and has a beautiful view from the window tables. We sat in the window, smashed our tacos and enjoyed a gorgeous Lake Tahoe sunset.

Unilocalers, please understand something: this is a Taco Bell Express. In reading the other reviews, it seems that customers forget they are entering a Taco Bell. If you don’t like the food, don’t go! As for this particular location, it is sandwiched into a tight spot with very little signage. Given it’s size, it cannot support the deep fryers needed for the Chalupa (sad, but true). However, with very little quick service options in town, this place rocks it. Very supportive of the local community (the business helps the Boys and Girls Clubs, local schools at the NTBA), this little store is a wonderful option for cheap eats on the go.

Let’s face it. I’m not a «local» by any means. But I do visit the entire Tahoe area often. Winter as well as in the summer. A regular for the last 30 years.
What does this have to do with Taco Bell? Probably not a lot to many of the locals. But to me and some folks from the greater SF Bay Area, it might make more sense.
Why do I give North Shore Taco Bell, «NSTB» such high rankings? Because it does what it does perfectly. It does not have gourmet Mexican food. When I walk inside I don’t feel like i’m in a hacienda. I can’t even be certain that the menu has one Hispanic word. (oops! Even the term Hispanic can be questioned)
But I don’t go to Taco Bell because I want a stamp on my passport. I go there to get six Taco Supremes or a Pintos and Cheese with a scoop of ground beef. And of course, a Pepsi and a fist full of Hot sauce.
Then I drive my Nissan Armada to the parking lot across the street, spool up Pandora on my Android and mack out on the cheap grub while staring out across the magical Lake Tahoe.
Perfect!
And this past weekend of decent snow boarding at Diamond Peak, all I wanted was some tacos to soothe my battered old body.
Taco Bell is Taco Bell. Nothing more. If you want gourmet then look else where. But your North Shore gourmet Mexican food will never be a good as the taquerias in the San Francisco Mission District. But that isn’t a fair comparison. Right?

Okay, so I live in a town that only has ONE fast-​food restaurant, a Subway’s. The next nearest fast-​food restaurant is this Taco Bell, which is a 15-​minute drive from my house.
Good thing, because only if I am starving and happen to be passing by this place and my blood sugar is dropping and I’m not thinking properly and I only have a few bucks in my pocket do I come here.
How does one really rate Taco Bell? It’s the kind of fast food that eventually kills people with its unidentifiable meat products, plastic cheeses and bizarre food combinations.
IT’S SO DAMN BAD, IT’S GOOD.
Good if you are desperate.
Good if you have 10 minutes to eat.
Good if you only have $ 5 in your pocket.

In my personal opinion, it is sad to see chain restaurants moving into North Shore, especially King’s Beach… one of the few places that hasn’t been over-​developed and still has that old Tahoe feel.
But in all fairness, the place has probably been there for 15 years now. Back in my younger days, I loved it being there (back then, their quesidellas were amazing. These days, they have lost the magic… but at the time, I couldn’t get enough). Now I see it as more of a scar on ol’ Kings Beach’s glorious mug.
If you’re hanging out around there and are craving some Mexican food, don’t bother. There are many small Mexican restaurants within walking distance that are just as fast and offer much better food. Don’t sell yourself short… you didn’t come to Tahoe for the chain restaurants, did you?

I can get over the fact that this is a Taco Bell «Express» meaning they have half a menu, which does NOT include the most delicious Taco Bell item ever, the chalupa (are you serious?).
What I can’t get over is how obnoxious the two women working here were.
There were three of us, all of whom ordered a meal with a drink. Something was off with the fountain soda machine which was causing it to produce the most disgusting soda ever. Not like when one kind of soda has run out of syrup and it’s only spitting out carbonated water. But like when something makes every single kind of soda taste horrible (we tried them all). When I told the women working that something was up, they totally gave us the ‘tude. The first woman said, «sorry, that’s all we have.» And then after I complained some more the other woman said, «oh, ok, I’ll fix something.» And she proceeded to not do anything.
Ridiculous! I hate you Taco Bell of Kings Beach.

I actually like taco bell. but this was very disappointing. They were missing half of the regular menu and it seemed to take forever to get the orders ready. There was a HUGE crowd of folks waiting for their food. The chips and taco shells were stale and all of my friends and I felt so sick afterwards. Doesn’t the Taco Police regulate on franchises like this?

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew!
Taco Bell is so nasty. I know an ex-​owner of several Wendy’s franchises who told me that Taco Bell would come by every so often and pick up all the meat that had spoiled. A few hours boiling in hydrogenated repeatedly re-​used oils, application of synthetic flavorings and who knows what else apparently makes it edible.
Eating at Taco Bell = Barfing later.

I can’t believe there’s a Taco Bell in town, less than a block from two decent Mexican restaurants. Come on, Ski America. I know all about the comfort of the familiar, but the only thing you know about Taco Bell is that it’s going to be bad.
Do I have to actually eat a taco here to prove how bad it is? Okay, I know, reviewer ethics. I’ll suck up and eat a taco for the team.
One saving grace is that the local KFC franchise is a separate building a couple blocks away. Thank god because when KFC and Taco Bell get together they start to breed.